Safety violations by site at US nuclear plants

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 file photo, steam rises from cooling towers at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Londenderry Township, Pa., next to the Susquehanna River. According to an unreleased Government Accountability Office report obtained by The Associated Press, the facility had two higher-level violations and 126 lower-level violations between 2000-2012. The Northeast region as a whole, with 26 reactors, had 2,518 lower-level violations, for a rate of 96.8 per reactor. (AP Photo/John Zeedick)

The number of lower-level safety violations per reactor at U.S. commercial nuclear power plants shows extraordinary differences among U.S. regions, pointing to inconsistent enforcement, according to an unreleased Government Accountability Office report obtained by The Associated Press. Higher-level violations are more uniform across the regions.

Here are violations between 2000 and the end of 2012 by plant site and region: